✦Creative · 12 recordsWrite consistently

The goal is a count of finished, published pieces — not words written or days in a row, both of which can be true while nothing gets finished.

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Goal

Publish twelve pieces Month 6

Finished and out. Drafts do not count, however good.

The writing habit Month 6

Getting words down, badly, on a schedule.

  • Pick a time of day and defend itDo firstDay 2
  • Keep a running list of things worth writing aboutDay 5
  • Finish the first draft of anythingWeek 2

Publishing Week 4

Where it goes, decided once, so it stops being a decision each time.

  • Decide where these are publishedDo firstDay 7
  • Publish the first oneWeek 3

Routines

  • Write for 25 minutesdaily
  • Edit and publishweekly
Skills
  • WritingBeginner → Intermediate

    Log drafting time here. The published count is the goal; this is what makes the months between publications visible.

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Finished, not perfect

Twelve published pieces in six months is one a fortnight. That is only possible if they go out before you think they are ready.

The daily routine is for drafting. The weekly one is for finishing. Keep them separate — editing while drafting is how a piece stays a draft for a year.

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Write consistently, answered.

Because a word count can rise for months while nothing is ever finished. Twelve published pieces is a harder target and the only one that produces a body of work rather than a folder of drafts.
Because editing while drafting is how a piece stays a draft for a year. The daily routine here is for getting words down badly; the weekly one is for finishing, and keeping them apart is most of the method.
Publish it anyway if the date has come. One piece a fortnight is only possible if things go out before they feel finished, and the standard rises much faster from publishing than from polishing.
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